Administrative staff of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), under the auspices of the PDP Staff Welfare Forum have cried out to the judiciary to salvage the party from its leadership crisis.

The staff, Tuesday, during a protest over the seven months shut down of PDP national headquarters, Wadata Plaza, appealed to the judiciary to speedily dispense justice as concerns pending PDP cases before the court in order to save Nigeria Democracy from gradually degenerating into a one party state conundrum.

According to the secretary of the PDP Staff Welfare Forum, Dan Ochubaiye, who read the speech on behalf of the protesters, “the forum frowned at the incessant petitions by a party in the case and described it as a delay tactic to subvert justice.

“The staff of the secretariat believed that the delay is only beneficial to the petitioner, who is being sponsored by the ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in order to weaken and silence the only opposition party.

“The staff of the PDP National secretariat holds the judiciary in high esteem and believe in it to remain unbiased and dispense justice that will maintain the sanctity and independence of the rule of law and the court.”

He also decried the continuous shutdown of PDP national secretariat by the police, noting that “certain elements want to ensure that the PDP national secretariat is perpetually under lock and key.”

According to the PDP staff, closure of the secretariat was unwarranted because there was no court pronouncements that ordered the indefinite shut down of the edifice.

“No court in the country gave the order for the lockdown of the PDP national secretariat by the Nigerian Police Force and therefore, we demanded the immediate and unconditional reopening of the secretariat to allow staff gain entrance into their offices for routine party activities.

“It is only fair and just for the staff to be allowed into their legitimate offices while the Police is duty bound to provide adequate security for them as provided by the Nigerian constitution” the staff said.

The workers also lamented the poor situation of staff welfare since the unfortunate outing of the PDP in the last general elections, just as they called on all the organs and stakeholders in the party to urgently support the Ahmed Makarfi led National Caretaker Committee in all ramifications.

They also rued the death of some of their colleagues who passed on within the period of the crisis saying “the staff welfare committee condoles with the families of its members that lost their lives during this uncertain period. It is the belief of staff that the demise of the staff were largely avoidable.”